Cedar
By Lou Paun
Although many trees claim the name, a true Cedar is a member of the genus Cedrus. There are four species in the genus. These conifers are native to the Himalayan Mountains and the Mediterranean regions.
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common name for a number of trees, mostly coniferous evergreens. The true cedars belong to the small genus Cedrus of the family Pinaceae (pine family).
Cedar Sage
Scientific Name: Salvia roemeriana Scheele
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Johnswort Cedarglade St. Johnswort (Hypericum frondosum)
Plant Type: This is a shrub, it is a perennial which can reach 100cm in height (39inches).
Leaves: The leaf arrangement is opposite. Each leaf is entire.
Cedar Elm
Once a popular vase-shaped lawn and street tree, American Elms are plagued by incurable Dutch elm disease and insects. Elms also have shallow, aggressive root systems.
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Western Cedar - Thuja plicata or occidentalis (in the Pinaceae or Pine family) ...
Saltcedar health benefits
Traditionally: the root and bark were used for flogging, and the branches for dying; sometimes the bark was also used for dying.
Onion Cedar - profile
Scientific name: Owenia cepiodora
Conservation status in NSW: Vulnerable
National conservation status: Vulnerable ...
Yellow-cedar
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis
A medium-sized tree, up to 24 metres tall and 90 centimetres in diameter; has a broad, grooved trunk that spreads out widely at the base.
Cedar mythology was ancient long before the Bible was written. In it's full range Cedrus has four primary species, & was associated with a Goddess in each species' native location, either as consort of the Goddess, or personified as itself female, ...
The Cedar Elm is a slow growing semi evergreen or deciduous tree with dark leaves that turn a yellow-gold in fall and have a rough sand paper-like texture.
Saltcedar
Scientific name: Tamarix spp.
Common names: Saltcedar, salt cedar, tamarisk ...
This cedar makes a stout columnar plant with close packed foliage. The needles are dark green but there are odd sprays that are a striking shade of gold, in surprising contrast to the dark and formal lines of this conifer.
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Deodar Cedars unite the relaxed, drooping posture of hemlocks and the massive horizontal sturdiness of certain pines, whether yielding valuable wood in Indian forests or graciously decorating our landscapes.
Lebanon Cedar
Common Names: Lebanese Cedar, Cedar of Lebanon
Genus: Cedrus
Species: libani ...
Deodara cedar is a finicky tree to grow. Like most conifers it requires excellent drainage to prosper. But unlike many other members of the pine family, to which the true cedars belong, Deodara cedar should have a good, fertile soil.
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When is a cedar not a cypress? When it's a Chamaecyparis. Too add to all this wonderful mess, we have Chamaecyparis lawsoniana, the Port Orford cedar, and Chamaecyparis thyoides, the Western or Atlantic white cedar, ...
Eastern Redcedar
(Juniperus virginiana L.)
LEAVES: Evergreen, opposite, two types (often on the same tree) the older more common kinds are scale-like and only 1/16"-3/32" long, while the young sharp-pointed ones may be up to 3/4" in length; ...
Western red cedar, which grows to 220 feet tall and over 10 feet in diameter, was the basis of a distinctive woodworking culture on the Pacific Coast from Northern California to lower Alaska involving dugout canoes up to 40 feet long and 6 feet broad, ...
Eastern Red Cedar Corcorcor (Emerald Sentinel) (Juniperus virginiana)
This evergreen Juniper tree is emerald green.
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Golden deodar cedar
Outstanding golden-yellow foliage in spring, turning greenish-yellow later in the year. Ordinarily a large tree, this particular specimen grew into an unusual prostrate habit. Nearly 6' long at planting, 5/1/00.
Cedrus libani, the cedar of Lebanon, is especially tolerant of alkali soils, and is hardy to zones 5-7; Cedrus deodara, or deodar cedar, is hardy zone 6-7, and Cedrus atlantica, the atlas cedar, in zones 6-8
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CURRENT MANAGEMENT APPROACHES: Management of saltcedar requires a long term commitment to maintain at low levels and prevent reinfestation.
( Glauca Pendula Cedar of Lebanon )
The cultivar, 'Glauce Pendula' is a graceful cedar that has a thin, column shape and long, stiff, green needles with barrel-shaped cones. Branches are long and droop. It enjoys cool temperate climates and full sun.
Weeping blue atlas cedar
Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca Pendula'
This tree is pliable and very easy to train (especially when young), and its drooping vertical branches give the slow-growing weeping blue Atlas cedar a unique personality.
Plants of the Cypress or Cedar Family
If you have ever smelled cedar or juniper wood, then you know the Cypress family. The trees or shrubs of this family have small, scaly leaves and separate male and female cones, sometimes on separate trees.
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Canaert Eastern Redcedar
(Juniperus virginiana 'Canaertii')
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CEDAR OF LEBANON
Cedrus libani
General Notes
Has Fragrant Bark and Leaf. SelecTree lists no cultivars of libani.
A Cedrus libani in Independence is registered as a California Big Tree.
cedar of Lebanon Pinaceae Cedrus libani A. Rich. [excluded] symbol: CELI6
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Cedar rust can defoliate trees and disfigure fruit wherever Juniperus virginiana, the red cedar, or Rocky Mountain cedar, J. scopulorum, is established. After the first eight weeks of the season, the rust threat is over.
CEDAR
Cedar trees (genus Cedrus) are large evergreen coniferous trees (up to about 80 feet tall) that have dense clusters of needles held in wide, woody peg-like structures. The barrel-shaped cones are held upright above a branch.
Cedar apple rust. This disease alternates between junipers and apple trees, producing galls and causing twig dieback.
Foliage or tip blight.
Phomopsis dieback. Dieback of leaves and twigs occurs in the spring. Eventually leaves may shed.
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Cedar because of apple-cedar rust.
Walnut because its roots produce growth inhibitors that apple trees are sensitive to[2]
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CEDAR APPLES are excrescences on the trunk of Juniperus virginiana, used as an anthelmintic in the dose of from 10 to 20 grains three times a day.
ELEPHANT APPLE is the fruit of Feronia elephantum.
KANGAROO APPLE is the fruit of S. laciniatum.
The cedar of Lebanon has thick, deeply furrowed dark gray to black bark.
Features
The taxonomy of the genus Cedrus is debated by the botanists. Depending on who you believe, you can recognize one, two or four species.
Alaska Cedar
Chamaecyparis nootkatensis
Tree with narrow crown and horizontal or slightly drooping branches. Height: 50-100' (15-30 m). Diameter: 1-4' (0.3-1.2 m). Leaves: evergreen; opposite in 4 rows, 1/8" (3 mm) long.
Japanese cedar is the national tree of Japan, commonly planted around temples, with many hugely impressive trees planted centuries ago. It can be difficult to grow from seed.
Miniature Cedar of Lebanon
Cedrus libani ‘Comte de Dijon'.
Western Red Cedar Thula policata ‘Irish Gold' forms a golden yellow tree of Christmas tree shape.
Western red cedar (Thuja plicata) is a popular conifer, grown most commonly as hedging. Unfortunately, it can sometimes be attacked by Thuja blight, an unsightly disease of the foliage is that can cause loss of vigour, particularly on young trees.
Genus: Thuja (Cedars)
Family: Cupressacea (Cypress)
Idaho species are either monoecious (pollen and seed cones on same plant) or dioecious (pollen cones on one tree or shrub and seed cones on different plants) trees or shrubs.
Bermuda Cedar. Endemic, a species of juniper, with dense, blue-green foliage. The leaves are scale-like, overlapping one another, with berries that turn a dark purple.
Description:
Cedar of Lebanon, the most famous and cold-hardy of the Cedars, matures to a picturesque and symmetrical growth habit with age, with layered, horizontal branches that have evergreen needles.
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These projections and ridges may be homologous with the seminiferous scale of the pines, firs, cedars, &c.
Cedar ( Cedrus spp. ) Short, spiky evergreen needles, dark green. False cypress ( Chamaecyparis spp. ) Evergreen, habit varies; slow developer.
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Salt cedar. Salt shrub. Rose tamarisk. Flowering cypress. From China and temperate E Asia. Introduced to cultivation in 1827. Whether T. ramosissima should be considered a synonym of T.
It is sometimes associated with cedar and hemlock. Michigan is at the western edge of the range of this species, which is native to woods from Nova Scotia to the eastern edge of Wisconsin and south through the Appalachians to Georgia and Mississippi.
'Glauca' - Known as the Blue Atlas Cedar. Most commonly used and more available than the species. Has blue-green needle color. Perhaps more accurately a variety (similar to the Colorado Blue Spruce (Picea pungens var. glauca)).
On the edge of the forest, Pacific dogwoods grow splendidly, rubbing shoulders with many conifers, such as western hemlocks ( Tsuga heterophylla), western red cedar ( Thuja plicata), spruce ( Picea sitchensis), Ponderosa pine ( Pinus ponderosa), ...
Cedar chips, pine needles and rinsed, crushed egg shells tend to repel slugs, either due to odor, resin and/or sharp edges. In fact, many hosta growers are reporting remarkable successes with pine needles applied two to three inches thick.
Native of moist areas from Cedarberg Mountains to southern KwaZulu-Natal. For any rich, well drained soil in a sunny spot. Requires a good winter protection (i.e. dry mulch layer).
 See also: Green, May, Evergreen, Juniper, Orange
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